It's time for a spring clean at YouTube, so you might notice that today we've renamed a few modules on the home page, watch page, and on the search results page, and we wanted to explain what the changes mean and why we're making them.

Like all spring cleaning exercises, you might ask "Why bother?" Well, in part because we want to help you discover videos on YouTube in lots of different ways, so it's important that you know where they came from and why we think you'll like them. But also, we just think these names make more sense. Here's the rundown:

* Spotlight Videos: We like to highlight videos we think you'll want to watch; videos that hopefully inform, inspire, and entertain. We think "Spotlight Videos" is an appropriate title for this section, and soon we are going to take a more thematic approach to showcasing some of the best videos our community and partners produce. When you see these videos, they will have top billing on the page -- a true spotlight.

* Promoted Videos: Our search advertising programme is about helping anyone promote their videos to a larger audience on YouTube (right now this is only available in the U.S.). Whether you're a start-up band trying to break out with a new single, or an advertiser showing off how to use your cool new product, this programme is a great way for you to promote and drive traffic to your content. We think "Promoted Videos" more accurately describes this programme than "Sponsored Videos," the original name.

* Featured Videos: Featured Videos will be primarily populated with videos from YouTube's thousands of partners, but they might also include select user videos that are currently popular or that we have previously showcased in Spotlight Videos. We will automatically rotate these videos throughout the day to keep them fresh.

We'll be making a few other changes to the homepage in the weeks to come; until then, we wanted to share these developments with you.

Yeah... So the featured videos do appear to rotate, but they seem to rotate from a set list which hasn't changed in about a month or so. I only say a month because the same Victorian bushfire appeal video (now a month old) has been there every goddamn time I look at the home page.

I'm a newbie to this site. I think its great! You guys are doing a fantastic job, and you obviously rarely get positive feedback. I would like to see the naysayers trying anything on this scale.If I had my 'druthers', my request would be a site map, so I could see every entry as a list.. sort by title, sort by author etc.Cheers, and keep it up!

its the same old people being featured for months , there is a lot of talent on here .....how about featuring one of mine ...there is a huge outcry on here especially the australian side ... so come on time for a change... i make great films PLEASSSSSSE...thank you if this gets read.......

I don't bother checking out the featured videos anymore becasue it's the same people all the time. I used to check it out to find new people but started noticing the same people being featured all the time. One person had more than TEN different video's of theirs featured. WTF?

It would be nice for some of us to get one of our video's featured & let the people decide if they like that channel.

What criteria is used for choosing spotlight videos? What some might find inspiring or entertaining, others may find downright silly or boring. If this is filtered by number of hits popularity.....well, the newcomers don't stand much of a chance of showing their talents when pegged against vids from highly subscribed accounts.

Featured vids also seem to be filtered in the same way, don't these vids already have a leg up as per views from subbers????

Suggestion for the featured -- use a bot to select unbiased, RANDOM videos that have been uploaded within 7days prior to the current date, keeping it fresh and fair!!

Suggestion for the spotlighted -- Create a "inspiring/entertaining" voting checkbox for viewers to select as worthy of spotlight, let these vids be selected from this.

It certainly is time for a spring cleanYour youtube contact info takes us to a totally non helpful Google no. The fax took me to someone called Michael's voice mailThere is no help and no responseI cannot keep my channel up to date or respond to friend requests because I cannot get into envirojeanI cannot do a dammed thing & I cannot communicate with your organisation!!!!!

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